2013 News archive
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| June 2013 |
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| Students inhibited by maths-fear not maths-ability 12 June 2013 |
| May 2013 |
| Teaching Award for Biology team 20 May 2013 |
| Professor Steve Simpson elected to the Royal Society 8 May 2013 |
| Fellowship awarded to study dengue dynamics 1 May 2013 |
| April 2013 |
| Golden staph fluoresces in rainbow colours 16 April 2013 |
| Photo competition for first-year biologists 11 April 2013 |
| Winton Charitable Foundation winners 8 April 2013 |
| March 2013 |
| Converting flowers into branches 28 March 2013 |
| Bringing back the wolves: a chance for the dingoes too? 22 March 2013 |
| Coral cell-signal for algal control 19 March 2013 |
| February 2013 |
| Prestigious Val Street Scholarship awarded to biology student 12 February 2013 |
| Deadly virus discovered in bats also jumps species 8 February 2013 |
| January 2013 |
| Survival at 40oC Above 29 January 2013 |
| Zoological Society of India fellowship for Professor Chris Dickman 11 January 2013 |
'Maths-anxiety' may explain the poor application of quantitative skills by some science students, according to a new paper in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology.
A major review and revamp of junior-year biology units, Concepts in Biology and Living Systems, has been awarded the 2013 Learning and Teaching Award.
The School of Biological Sciences' Professor Steve Simpson has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society.
Visitor to the School of Biological Sciences, Dr Prasad Paradkar, studies insect-transmitted viruses. He has recently arrived here on an Eric French Fellowship to learn specialised techniques with Professor Eddie Holmes.
Images of living Golden Staph cells, containing green and red fluorescent proteins, light up the cover of next month's Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
They say a picture tells a thousand words and in science photography we want those thousand words to educate, enlighten and explain. Out-of-focus instagram images are of no use here!
Mathematical biology students have been awarded a number of internships and scholarships from the Winton Charitable Foundation. These students will use the power of mathematics to grapple with the complexity of the natural world.
A newly named gene in the grass species Brachypodium, called MORE SPIKELETS1, has been found by Dr Mary Byrne to convert flowers into branches. A stunning scanning electron micrograph image of this work has made the cover of this month's Plant Physiology.
The re-introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park offers Fulbright Scholar, Dr Thomas Newsome, the opportunity to ponder the benefits for Australia in using similar measures with dingoes.
Corals need to control the growth of their intra-cellular algae, lest the algae become parasitic. In a paper recently published in FEBS Journal, researcher Dr Adrienne Grant, has demonstrated how a local coral's cell signal exerts that control.
Georgia Ward-Fear is the 2013 recipient of the Val Street Scholarship. Northern Australia's top order predators are currently in decline, and Georgia aims to find out why. 
Four new forms of hantavirus, one of the most virulent pathogens transmitted from animals to humans, has been identified by international research contributed to by the University of Sydney.
Author Debbie S. Miller spent time with the Desert Ecology Research Group in the Simpson Desert for her new children's book - Survival at 40oC Above.
Over Christmas, Professor Chris Dickman was elected to the fellowship of the Zoological Society of India.